On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 11:21:44 -0500 Julie Marchant <onp...@riseup.net> wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 09:37 AM, David Craven wrote: > > 3. There is documentation available that enables the developement of > > free firmware. > > This typically doesn't exist. Indeed, however in some rare cases they are available. In the case of embedded controllers, I think that enough documentation is available. > That's why proprietary firmware blobs are used. If people knew how to > develop libre firmware for a device, someone would do it. I'm sure > even Linus Torvalds prefers libre firmware that can actually be > maintained over proprietary firmware blobs that cannot. I'm not sure about that. I guess that many people and linux developers also want feature-parity and stability with the proprietary firmwares. - Openfwwf is supported by the b43 driver but not used by default. Is it because it require some data to build the firmware files? - The radeon driver refuses to probe if fimrwares are not loaded. It was not the case in earlier versions of linux. Denis.
